February 2011 Archives

A Nebraska man took the freedom of the road to a new level last week when he was cited while enjoying a naked joyride.

Nickolus Borgman was driving down a road somewhere near Lincoln, Nebraska when a sheriff's deputy spotted his pick-up truck. As the deputy approached the vehicle, he realized what was going on. The passengers--one man and two women in addition to Borgman, according to the Associated Press--were on a naked joyride.

That wasn't the only thing going on, either. Nickolus Borgman, of Lincoln, was also busted for a naked DUI.

We all know those Girl Scout cookies are quite a racket. Tasty and delicious they are. I do say that if anyone tried to snatch them away from me, I might become quite angry. But I'm not sure that a full on attack would be in order.

When Washington Post editor Marc Fisher received an urgent text message from his teenage son, he rushed home to find the police pulling up to his house. Someone had broken in.

Amongst the stolen possessions was his son's laptop, complete with secure data and stored passwords. This is where the story takes a turn towards the strange.

As he tells it, the burglar popped onto his son's laptop, took a full-face photo of himself wearing a stolen coat and pointing to stolen money, and then posted it on his son's Facebook wall. Hence the Facebook Burglar.

Some of us moan and groan when we hear the telltale song of an approaching ice cream truck. The parents out there need to fend off the whining, and the dieters have to resist the temptation.

But do any of us really hope the truck is manned by a drunk ice cream man?

Probably not, but a Tampa Bay neighborhood reportedly got just that this week when Ronald Purdy, a Tampa area ice cream man, nearly ran his ice cream truck into a child. He had a blood alcohol content level of .227 percent--nearly three times the legal limit.

Apparently someone in Lincoln, Nebraska thinks that you can exchange rabbits. The man allegedly stole a bunny from a pet store and left a jackrabbit in its place.

The incident happened at a Pet Doctor pet store. A clerk witnessed a white man in his 40s put a bunny worth $60 in his coat and walk out. The kidnapped rabbit was a white, lop-eared Holland bunny, TheOmahaChannel.com reports.

Every struggling homeowner dreams of sticking it to his mortgage company. Well, one man is living this dream against Wells Fargo, and he has the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act to thank.

Patrick Rodgers is doing well for himself. He runs a thriving music promotion business, is up to date on his mortgage, and his house is not "underwater." In fact, his house is arguably worth more than he owes, which is something his mortgage company, Wells Fargo, isn't too fond of.

Anthony Dingle, the New York Housing Authority Superintendent, sued his boss claiming that her voice made him vomit. Anthony Dingle, said that his boss, Demetrice Gadson, constantly dressed him down, and "every time I heard her voice, it triggered a sickening feeling in me," reports the New York Post.

A California cat burglar has been caught. And his name? Dusty. The Cat.

San Mateo, a city just south of San Francisco, had been plagued by a cat burglar for the last three years. Residents had no clue what was going on--the California cat burglar was stealing strange items, such as teddy bears, towels and shoes. He even stole a bra. Who would want these things?

Confused by the odd lot of stolen items, someone set up a night vision camera to catch the perpetrator in action, reports Metro UK. The camera revealed that the neighborhood's cat burglar was actually Dusty the Cat, as it showed him dragging items from neighbors' homes in the middle of the night. One of these videos even shows the cat gingerly walking down the street with a stolen bra in his mouth.

"I went to the Playboy Mansion but all I got was the flu, a fever, respiratory illness, pneumonia and violent headaches."

That's one idea I had for a very lame Playboy t-shirt, after over 100 people fell ill after attending a party at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. They were in Santa Monica for the DOMAINfest Global conference, which featured an evening at the mansion. Despite what you might think, the outbreak was not related to any venereal diseases. In fact, the outbreak was allegedly linked to a fog machine, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Three years ago, Rafael Pichardo was enjoying a night out at an Atlantic City casino when an off-duty Atlantic City police officer (working security, of course), requested that he retrieve something that he had knocked over. Refusing, Pichardo was then asked to leave. That's when the rest of the Atlantic City police department was called in, according to New Jersey Newsroom.

Somebody didn't tell Ronnie Menard how it works at the strip club. The 19-year-old Florida man asked for a lap dance at Fantasy's at the Beach but tried to steal a Fort Myers stripper's money during the dance.

He grabbed her garter, which snapped and then he ran out of the strip club with $314. The stripper said that she had just counted the money so she knew how much she had, WBBH News reports.

Instead of using condoms, the industry has been policing itself. It set up the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, which runs a clinic funded by production companies. The clinic conducts health screenings for entertainers, reports The New York Times, and maintains a database that producers can check to confirm that actors have been tested for diseases within the last thirty days. Condoms are not part of the clinic's services.

Put a live puppy in the mail and you probably shouldn't expect to get it back.

Stacey Champion, the woman who attempted to mail a poodle from Minneapolis to Atlanta, will not be getting the animal back, according to the ruling of an administrative hearing officer.

Champion said that she was attempting to send the puppy to her 11-year-old son. She liked the idea that he would open the box and be surprised with a brand new puppy. If that package had ever made it to her son, it certainly would have been a surprise, though not the joyful kind. The box had no holes in it, no food, no water, and would have been transported in a freezing, non-pressurized cargo area.

It's not every day you hear that a cockfighting rooster kills a man. But for a California gambler, that's exactly what happened.

In a cockfight, roosters are armed with sharp blades to help them fight, but the blades often result in their death. This time one of those blades resulted in the death of Jose Luis Ochoa, the rooster's handler and a frequent participant in Bakersfield's illegal cockfighting rings. The man, killed by a rooster stabbing him in the calf, bled out within hours, reports NPR.

Guess who is running for Mayor of Miami? None other than Former 2 Live Crew rapper Luther Campbell. Campbell promoted his candidacy from the comfort of his desk, by writing a column in the Miami New Times. Campbell will be up against Mayor Carlos Alvarez who is facing a recall.

The Luther Campbell Miami Mayor campaign now begins, and Campbell is of course being questioned as to whether he is up for the job. He doesn't have any real political experience. Nevertheless, Campbell said he's the right person because it is time for a change, the New Timesreports.

Ever dream of shooting an elephant? No? Me either. But a Polish man did. And he's now suing a German tour operator for failing to send him to a place where he could live out his dream.

Not content with smaller or local game, the plaintiff, a Mr. I., set his crosshairs on an African elephant. And because all dreams don't come true at Disneyland, the Polish hunter hired a German tour company known for organizing hunting expeditions to find him some elephants to kill, reports Reuters.

Do you really need someone to tell you that you're not supposed to ship live puppies in the mail? Stacey Champion attempted to mail a puppy via Priority Mail from Minneapolis to Atlanta in a closed box without air holes, according to U.S. postal workers. Champion was even clever enough to inform postal workers that the box might make some noise "because it contained a toy robot," the Star Tribune reports.

Employees became quite suspicious when the box suddenly shook and fell of the counter after the woman left the post office, Postal Service spokesman Pete Nowacki said. Postal inspectors then opened the box and found a 4-month-old poodle mix. The stressed pup was panting hard.

If you're straight and not currently an addict, perhaps you'll want to think twice before you fill a prescription for Requip, a Parkinson's disease drug. Didier Jambart, a French father of two, claims that the drug turned him into a gay sex addict and gambling addict, as well as pushing him to attempt suicide three times, the AFP reports.

Jambart, 51, is suing GlaxoSmithKline for allegedly causing his life to spiral out of control due to Requip, which he was first prescribed in 2003 to reduce tremors, movement and speech disruption.